Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Army. Old line officers never got over their suspicion of his unorthodox methods. Contemporary experts agree that the Dardanelles campaign, the attempted relief of Antwerp that held up the German advance on Paris in 1914, were brilliantly conceived, weakly executed. Purpose of the Dardanelles campaign as Churchill saw it was more than an attempt to help Russia gain access to the Mediterranean: it was to swing fence-sitting Italy to the Allied side, win the tremulous Balkans away from Germany. Defending himself after the failure with biting eloquence, Churchill used the phrase "gamble" in connection with the Naval Plan, later...
While observers were still wondering whether the first-born steppe-child of the Berlin-Moscow marriage would be a Budapest-Bucharest axis, an internal axis was born-the Serbs and Croats finally got around to sporazum in Yugoslavia...
Since Oriental diplomacy and even war are nine-tenths Face, Japan's greatest shock aside from losing potential armed support against Russia was that Germany had not whispered a word of warning. Ambassador to Berlin Hiroshi Oshima hurried around to see Joachim von Ribbentrop soon after he got back from signing the Pact, taxing him with this slight. How long had this been in the wind? Why had he told Italy's Count Ciano and not him? Herr von Ribbentrop, who seemed to enjoy the situation, merely replied that consultations had been going on "for a considerable time...
...Fortyish Mary K. Browne, national women's tennis champion in 1912-13-14 and runner-up for the national golf title in 1924, who, playing for fun while on vacation from teaching tennis in an Ohio school, got a 79, fifth best score in the qualifying round...
...Chicago's giggly Eleanor Dudley, University of Alabama junior, who got a hole-in-one on her fourth drive, then became so flustered she took an 8 on the next hole, wound up with 92 and failed to qualify for match play...